Scavenging the mail folder uncovered Milan Zamazal's letter:
> >>>>> "CW" == Colin Walters <levanti@verbum.org> writes:
>
> CW> Find the package you want on freshmeat.net (or similar), then
> CW> search for it in Debian.
>
> Not much nice to people who buy Debian CD and use it off-line.
> I (almost) always look into Debian firstly when looking for a software
> doing something.
>
> Sections are nice when looking for a new program doing something.
> Priorities are nice when freeing disk space -- I can simply skip the top
> priorities.
yes. but with the number of packages increasing we need something better.
like 100 or 200 keywords (package maintaners choose a handfull) and a tool
to search fast and with boolean expression support. something like
apt-get keyword-search ssl and http not nonfree
(the free/contrib/nonfree stuff can be put in the keywords, maybe the basic
licence type too [maybe i want to look for gpl packages only!])
my 0.02e,
federico
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